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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Friday, January 25, 1957 is -.: t , ' vi '.-'A A Jr- ? ' ' fi ft SLEEPING IN HOME, Mrs. Sally Gordon and daughter, Reeda, 9, are overcome by smoke as fire sweeps through Los Angeles structure. Richard Takvorian saw flames and with help of another man carried pair to safety before fire equipment arrived. (International Soundphoto) Feeding the Family By ZOLA VINCENT Food Editor Chees Asparagus Fondue Good California canned white asparagus cpmbines with cheese for a hearty luncheon or supper main dish. Six servings. 1 No. 303 can white asparagus Milk . 2 eggsj well beaten 1 cup grated sharp Cheddar cheese (about V pound) 2 cups soft bread crumbs ' cup minced onion Ki teaspoon salt a teaspoon paprika 4 slices cooked crisp bacon Drain asparagus and reserve liquid: arrange asparagus in greased Vi quart casserole. Combine asparagus liquid and enough milk to make two cups liquid. Add eggs, well beaten, cheese, crumbs, onion, salt and paprika. Cook over low heat until cheese is melted. Pour over asparagus. Top with crisp bacon slices. Place casserole in pan of hot water and bake in slow oven, 325 degrees, one hour, or until set. Saucy Sauarkraut Men like sauerkraut. Men like apples. Men like ham. Knowing these things we have combined sauerkraut, apples and ham in this recipe which we know the men (and this includes the grow ing boys) are sure to like. 1 No. 2'i can sauerkraut 2 medium-sized apples, cored and diced 1 cup chopped onions 2 tablespoons brown sugar, packed 1 pound cooked ham, cut in large pieces i cup sliced onions 1 No. 2 can tomatoes 13 cup water 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour Salt and pepper to taste Combine sauerkraut, apples, one cup onions and brown sugar in a saucepan;' cook over med ium heat until onions are tender and liquid has evaporated. Mean while combine ham and one-half cup onions in a skillet; cook over medium heat until ham is browned and onions tender. Add tomatoes and bring to boiling point. Mix flour with water until smooth; add to tomato mixture. Cook, stirring constantly, until thickened. Salt and pepper to taste. Arrange sauerkraut mix ture, on serving dish and pour ham-tomato sauce over it. Serve immediately. Appla Walnut Braad Fin Coffaa ComoaniOD Oven-fresh bread and freshly T made coffee are superlative sav- ored together, especially if a good, neighbor or two drops in mid-morning or mid-evening. For ' a more elaborate snack session, J get out a jar of preserves and . whip up some cream cheese for bread spreading. : H2 cups sifted enriched flour - 2 teaspoons baking powder j teaspoon baking soda ; 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon cinnamon '.4 teaspoon each nutmeg and 1 allspice 114 cups whole wheat flour 1 cup broken walnut meats - 34 cup chopped apple 1 egg, slightly beaten 1'. cup brown sugar, firmly T packed I'l'i cups buttermilk ' ; 2 tablespoons shortening : Mix and siftflour, baking "powder, baking soda, salt and spices. Add whole wheat flour, ; walnuts and apple. Combine egg. f brown sugar, buttermilk and : shortening; add and mix just 1 enough to moisten dry ingredi ' ents. Do not beat. Turn into well- greased loaf pan 9x5x3 inches. ; Bake in moderate oven, 350 de tgrees, one hour. - French Fried Onions -Masculine Faroriia Notice how often the men or "der French fried onions when ; they appear on a restaurant bill I of fare? They're easy as this to 'rdo at home. '6 or 8 medium size mild onions 1 cup flour 1 s teaspoon poultry seasoning :1 cup milk i teaspoon salt Shortening or cooking oil Skin the onions, slice very thin, separate into rings, dip into batter made from the flour, egg and seasonings; drain well. Have ready a kettle of fat hot enough to brown a small piece of bread in 60 seconds. Lower onions in wire basket into hot fat; fry to golden brown; drain on absorbent paper. Sprinkle with salt. Serve at once. Canned Foods, Eggs, Potatoes, Beaf, Pork, Heavy Turkeys Top Best Buys Canned foods headline the plentiful foods list during Jan uary each year as manufactur ers, wholesalers and retailers clear out last year's pack to make room for the new. Watch advertisements and store dis plays for best canned food buys of the year and plan to buy by the dozen or case family-favored items. Eggs. The supply of eggs is on a seasonal increase; and this year there is an even heavier supply of high quality eggs available than in 1956 with prices more favorable. It is a good time for economy minded homemakers to make liberal use of eggs in meal planning. Potatoes. Hundreds of millions of pounds of good quality pota toes continue moving to retail markets and are well worth fea turing in family meals during this cold month. Although pota toes may be served in a variety of ways. . . boiled, fried, baked, creamed, and in combination with many other foods ... a recent survey shows that mashed potatoes are still the most popu lar way of serving. Meat Department. More of the higher grade beef is expected. Markets are well stocked with forequarter cuts. Delicious braised roasts from the chuck, and long-moist-cooked di s h e s from the plate and rib are just the thing for a cold rainy day. Pork is still in seasonally large supply with fresh pork cuts more in demand than smoked or cured . . . perhaps a natural trend after the heavy holiday use of smoked and cured pork products. Lamb supplies are stepping up with genuine bargains in good eating to be found in lamb stews, lam burgers, breast of lamb and shoulder cuts. Heavy turkeys are the best buy in the poultry department. Real bargains for home freezer own ers. Fryers and broilers will also be in the spotlight. Stewing hens are in good supply. Now would seem an ideal time for chicken or turkey and dumplings, tur key or chicken pies, fried chick en, broiled chicken, turkey dish es of all kinds. Vegetable Buys. Broccoli, cab bage and cauliflower are in good supply. All are wonderful when served raw in salads; equally good when cooked quickly and served promptly. Never over cook. Onions and winter squash are budget buys as are carrots, potatoes, and celery. Fruit buys include grapefruit, oranges, winter varieties of pears and apples. Also available are avocados, lemons, bananas, some varieties of grapes. Red China Honors YanbTrained Expert Tokyc U.P.) An American trained jet expert won top mon ey in Red China's first awards "for contributions to science" Radio Peiping reported today. The radio said that Tsien Hhueh-shen, one of the most con troversial figures during the ex change of nationals between the Uniied States and Red China in 1955. won one of three top awards valued at S5.000 each, given by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He won "his award, the radio said, for a book written in the United States "covering the theories of the automatic control and the automatic regulation of various systems in engineering techniques." . Living Costs Rise To Record Level During December Washington U.R) The cost of living rose to a record level again last month to make con sumer prices at the end of 1956 almost 3 per cent higher than December. 1955, the government reported today. The Bureau of Labor Statis tics' consumer price index rose two-tenths of 1 per cent between November and December to a new high of 118 per cent of the average 1947-49 prices. The index set records in six of the last seven months of 1956. Means Pay Boost The new increase also means cost of living pay boosts ranging from 1 to 3 cents an hour for around 500.000 workers in truck ing and other transport indus tries, and the electrical and air craft factories. Wage contracis in those industries contain esca lator clauses tied to the price index. The Bureau of Labor Statis tics also reported that the aver age factory workers' take-home pay and the purchasing power of his paycheck rose to record lev els in December, despite the rise in the cost of living. 2 Per Cent Higher At the year's end, the average factory take-home pay was al most 2 per cent higher than in November and about 5 per cent higher over the year. The purchasing power of the average factory pay check stood at 125.5 per cent of the 1947-49 average. The BLS said higher housing costs were the main factor in the cost of living increase last month. Nevada Atomic Tests on Schedule Washington(U.R) The Atom ic Energy commission is plan ing to hold a new series of atom ic tests in Nevada late this spring apparently involving nu clear anti-aircraft weapons. The AEC said Thursday in an nouncing the series that it would involve "low yield'' tests. It said a "major objective" of the tests would deal with "weap ons for defense against attack." The commission said the exact date for starting the test series will be announced later. News- j men will be permitted "limited on-site reportage" of some of the explosions just as they were dur ing the last Nevada tests in 1955. The AEC also announced that during the year it will conduct separate Nevada tests related to the safety of various weapons and experimental devices "in the event of accidents such as fires during handling or storage" of nuclear materials. Girl Scouts Election Held ' Barbara Edmonds was invest ed as a member of Troop 77, Intermediate Girl Scouts of Lincoln school, at the last troop meeting. The troop also held election of officers for the spring session of scouting. New presi dent of the troop is Bette de Place, with Darlene Arnold as vice-president. Susan Spencer was elected secretary and Bar bara Edmonds was elected trea surer. Patrol leaders are Patty Fagone, Darla Sue Williams and Nancy Atwood. The troop has Mary Friend, a Senior Scout, for program aide: she is helping the mem bers learn scout songs, games and etiqutte. Troop ,77 is making plans for several commg events; plans are being completed for decorating a store window during Scout Week, and for attending church together as a troop on Girl Scout Sunday. The troop is work ing on nature scrap books and on a nature notebook, with stor ies on animals, trees or plants written by the girls of the troop. The troop has decided to learn about France for the interna tional friendship requirement of their sceond class badge work. At the next troop meeting each girl will bring a picture or some item that tells about France. Mary Beth Lockington has transferred to Troop 77 from West Linn, Oregon. WHOLE BRIDGE STOLEN -Erba. Italy U.F People of this mountain hamlet would like to join forces to catch some thieves who have upset the daily life of the entire village. They can't, however. The thieves stole the wood and cement bridge which spanned the River Bova. The Bova runs through the center of Erba. PICTURE TUBES REJUVENATED It your picture hib dull and weakf Most picture tubes can be restored to original brightness at only fraction of the cost of replacement. For further information CALL Electronic Service 18. N. GRAPE PH. J-1971 The Medical Roundup Emeritus Consultant in Medicine, Mayo Clinic Emeritus Professor of Medicine, Mvvo Foundation S J Diagnoses That Have Gone Out of Fashion Thousands of people used to be operated on for adhesions, but I fear they seldom got much of a result. Fortunat e 1 y, today, this op er a t i o n has largely, gone out of fash ion. In my 25 years at the Mayo Clinic, I doubt if I ever saw a patient Dr Alvarex sent in for an operation for adhesions. To be sure, many persons, when the abdomen was opened for some reason, were found to be full of adhesions,' but seldom did the surgeons believe that these ad hesions had caused any of the distress complained of. Inciden tally, I fear that usually, when adhesions are cut or pulled apart, they tend to form again. Fortunately, after an opera tion, the adhesions that form tend to loosen up. Only rarely do they cause any intestinal ob struction. I remember patients who, at an operation fort some illness, were found full of adhe sions, and yet they had had no indigestion, or abdominal pain or constipation. That is why I say that I do not know if adhe sions produce symptoms; and if they do, I do not yet know what they are. Every year I see per sons who were once operated on for adhesions, but hardly a one got much of a result. I am afraid that often, when we physicians are in a hurry: when the reception room is full, and some woman, as she is be ing dismissed, holds us up to ask why her abdomen is so uncom fortable, we do not behave as we should. Instead of saying that we have not yet determined what the trouble is, or instead of spending half an hour next day trying to explain tnat sev eral things might cause the dis tress, or instead of saying that almost certainly it is due to nerv ousness, we are inclined to hazard a guess that it is due to adhesions, or a bad appendix, or "colitis," and to hope that, until we have more time to study the woman, this will satisfy her. Diagnoses Popular Through the years we doctors have tended to use for the pur pose of quickly satisfying pa tients a number of .diagnoses which, for periods of time, have become popular. For instance; when I was a young man, one of the most popular diagnoses with which to quiet a patient was "in testinal autointoxication." It is very questionable if there ever was such a disease, and it is now largely forgotten, but many peo ple once liked the term, and it satisfied them: it sounded rea sonable. For years another very popu lar diagnosis was "chronic ap pendicitis." I am glad to say that in recent years it has been going out of fashion. In the best hos pitals today a surgeon who is found to be making this diagno sis too often is told that he can no longer use the operating rooms. I am not talking about acute appendicitis which, at the time of operation, is obviously present or not present. Dropping of Organ About 1915, when the x-rays came in, we pnysicians oegan to use the diagnosis of "ptosis," or a dropping of somp abdominal organ below the level at which we had assumed that it should be. We spoke of ' gastroptosis. coloptosis, and nephroptosis, de pending on whether we thought the stomach, or the colon, or the kidney was lower than it should be. For a while many surgeons were operating for ptosis, but fortunately, most of them soon learned that when this operation was done on a nervous and un happy woman, she rarely was any better; or f, for a time, she was better, it was only for a few months. A few surgeons still feel that sometimes it helps to fasten up a low movable kidney, while others have no faith in this op eration, and rarely if ever per form it. I have no desire here to criti cize those of my tenow-pnysi-cians who still honestly believe in the importance of adhesions, intestinal autointoxication, chronic appendicitis, or ptosis. I cannot criticize them because, in some cases, they may be right and I wrong. There ma' be a few rare cases in which these Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport In this human, diagnoses are correct, world, all of us, being are subject to error. Often, even after my 45 years of intense study of the causes of abdominal discomfort, I have to say to a woman, "I cannot say exactly what is bothering you. All I can say with certainly is that you have no sign of what we doctors call organic disease such as an ulcer, some' gall stones, or a cancer. The essen tial point is, I am sure there is nothing in your abdomen to op erate on. Perhaps if you will watch and keep a written rec ord, you will find that your stomach gets upset after an emo tional storm, or when you eat a certain food, or when you get constipated, or when you get a cold, or when you have a severe migraine headache over one eye." Dr. Alvarez hopes his readers will understand that it would be impossible for him to answer re quests for information or to at tempt to diagnose by mail. (Released by The Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1957) Capitol Reporters Named To Committee Washington U.R! Three Capitol reporters were elected Thursday to the Standing Com mittee of Correspondents, gov erning body for the congression al pres? galleries. The successful candidates and their vote: Frank Eleazer, chief of the United Press House staff, 341; Richard L. Lyons, Was'ningtor Post and Times Herald 288; and Alan S. Emory, Watertown, N.Y., Times, 240. Don Irwin of the New York Herald Tribune received 226 votes. There were only three vacan cies on the five - member com Why All the Excitement When Bergman Came Back?, Writer Would Like To Know By DOC QUIGG " United Press Correspondent New York (U.R) Sometimes it seems to me that our public hysteria spasms are getting back to the mass lunacy of the 1920s. I don't know how it has been in your town, but there has been a heavy hullabaloo in our town recently over a Bergman named Ingrid. After 34 highly and neatly publicized hours in New York, Miss Bergman departed these: shores weary but smiling," as the papers said. If you ask me personally, I say I couldn't care less what Ingric. j does whether she comes, goes, stays put, or shilly-shallies. What earthly difference does-it make? Miss Bergman is an actress ! a pretty fair one, with a lovely face and a fetching accent who had a child by one man while still married to another. This I comes under the category of j forthright action, if nothing else. ! I do not come before you to-1 day to discuss morals, religion, ; or the law. For all I know Miss ; Bergman may be a person of I virtue, with the rectitude of a New England church steeple. I j believe, however, that she has been quoted as dubbing her ac tion a "mistake." And she said it's how people act after their mistakes that counts. My interest is in the terrible tizzy thrown by this burg on the occasion of her brief visit You'll : have to pardon me, but I just don't get it. I saw the red en gines, but I didn't see the fire. Before her arrival, she was dinned at us in interviews over radio and television. At the air port, she was interviewed in five languages. She said she had "never regretted anything." One paeanist wrote: "When she stepped off the plane, 6he displayed a smile that would melt the heart of an income-tax collector." That's fine. Let her smile. But let us not go into a kingsize con-: niption oyer it. Miss Bergman i indicated just before her tired-1 but-toothy departure for Paris that it would be a pleasure to get back to Europe, where peo ple aren't so hooray-happy over her public and private life and most folks don't give a hoot about her comings and goings. The next time Ingrid comes here, let us hope it is with some of the quietude that marks the entering and exiting of her once celebrated fellow countrywoman, G. Garbo. Nothing makes me happier than the fact that Greta has achieved her desire to be alone in public. If Miss Bergman wants to stay away for almost eight years, that's let's simmer down and not mob ourselves with curiosity the next time she returns. In situations such as this, it is a pleasure to recall the item car ried by the show-business trade newspaper "Variety" about wedding last year: "Married Grace Kelly to Prince Rainier the 3rd, April 18th and 19th, Monaco. Bride i her choice. But please i film star; groom is nonpro." BOY 'O BOY! HAVE WE SOLD A LOT of APPLIANCES DURING OUR Q We Were Surprised at the Results! BARGAINS LEFT! 19.6 Amana Freezer Repossessed Was $629.95 $KRf00 NOW 10.3 ARiMIRAL REFRIGERATOR 2 Door, 2 Temper- $9QQ95 atures. ALL FOR "3 And we will give you a big trade. Monarch Combination WOOD and ELECTRIC RANGE Heat Even with Wood or Electric REGULAR $199.95 NOW YOUR OLD SOQQ95 RANGE and . GET OUR BIG BEFORE 7.3 CU. FT. ADMIRAL REFRIGERATOR Was MKow $3995 Monarch Electric Full Size. 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